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Which informatics building block supports the human-technology interface?

Cognitive

When an operating system is moved from one hardware architecture to another, we say the system has

Portability

A remote data wipe program may be installed on which type of system?

Portable devices used off site

Using biomedical information to design specific interventions related to genome type is known as

Precision medicine

The HIT infrastructure initiated by HIPAA legislation and then refined by the HITECH act, supports using and exchanging information in order to

Protect public health by fostering early detection and rapid response to infectious disease, bioterrorism, and other situations. Improve healthcare quality, reduce the cost of health care, and better secure patient health info. Improve people's health by promoting prevention, early detection, and management of chronic diseases.

For information to be valued and meaningful it must be

Accessible, accurate, timely, complete, reliable, relevant

Assigning passwords to employees so that they can access the secure network is

Authentication

EHR's, automating charting functions, and health information exchange have catapulted health care into the realm of:

Big data

What is an example of human technology interface?

EMR, PCA Pump, telephones

Alarm fatigue is a consequence of multiple false alarms and may lead to clinicians to ignore or respond slowly to alarms. What strategy is appropriate for mitigating alarm fatigue?

Feeding alarm data into a reporting database to analyze and determine appropriate alarm parameters

What is likely to compromise data integrity?

Hackers, human error, transmission errors

Information systems in health care differ from those in manufacturing and business because

Healthcare is highly regulated, multidisciplinary, and professionally driven

The building blocks of health informatics include

Information science, computer science, cognitive science, and discipline specific science

When an organization develops policies to specify how and by whom data is input, and to track when data are changed, the organization is looking to ensure:

Integrity

When all health professionals who interact with and treat patients document in the EHR this promotes

Inter professional collaboration

The process of triaging and tiering data help to make data

More accessible, which is a must for data mining

When learning takes place in both physical and virtual worlds, we say that learning is a

Multi-spatial function

When healthcare agencies provide access to health information on websites they:

Must adhere to responsible information standards

What is not an application of cognitive science in informatics?

System interoperability

The human technology interface is:

The hardware and software that supports humans interacting with technology.

Health care research that is aimed specifically at a clinical application is known as:

Translational research

Confidential information in a secure network is most typically breached by

Unauthorized use by authorized users

Interoperability is the ability to share information

across organizations

Empowering consumers to understand their health needs is a major goal of

eHealth initiatives